Beginning

Looking at the blue sky..what a warm sunny day.

It's a day where no sad stories should be told.
Where should Cat start ye..? From the very beginning? Or maybe from the middle... or let's just skip everything, and turn straight away to the last page. Nah, let's go accordingly by the book.

Once upon a time.. 

Cat was born in a small fishing village in southern Johor. By 'small', Cat really mean small: there were less than 3000 inhabitants (well. actually 2999 inhabitants + 1 kitten) there at that time.

Most of the villagers are fishermen, and a few are farmers. The land are plentiful but more suitable for cultivation of pineapple and local fruit trees. As often the case with small villages, there are not that much entertainment around, and the younger generations would choose migration to bigger towns.   

It was actually Cat's mum hometown. Mum had grown up there all her life till she got married to Dad at the age of 18 years old. Mum was so lucky to have 14 of her siblings with her, as the distance from one house to another is around 8km. Just imagine, how far it was to go to school. It took her 30 minutes of walking in the wee early hours (even before the cock crows).

When Cat was small, we did not 'balik kampung' often. :) It was a journey of 180km from Muar to Kukup and around 2 hours and 45 minutes of driving in Dad's antique red colored Volkswagon. It was a long drive with a panoramic view of plantations, never ending highway and again more trees along the road.

Cat got carsick almost every time we made the trip, affected by the strong smell coming from the palm plantations and from the long bumpy ride. (Thank God the roads are much better nowadays, kan..:)